Live Sessions: North Mississippi Allstars Cover a Blues Standard

A few months ago, during our Style Across America adventure, we found ourselves in Memphis, Tennessee, hanging with Cody and Luther Dickinson of North Mississippi Allstars fame. Not ones to squander an opportunity, we recorded this Live Session in the parking lot of our hotel in the early morning, using the AC plug in our loaner Chevy Silverado to power the homemade can guitar.

True to the Allstars' sound and roots, they played blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin," first recorded in 1929 by Hambone Willie Newbern, and appropriated under the new name "Drinking Muddy Water" by the Yardbirds in 1967.